So let’s talk about history. They say that history is written by the conquerors… but have we looked deeply into what that means? First it helps to stretch the human story into a longer timeline. When we look at the full length of history there is something like 100,000 years of human beings on the …
Author Archives: Zareen
Untraining Ourselves
What if our unenlightened state, where we find ourselves right now, is really just the result of training… and we could untrain ourselves. – Language and Thoughts – We’ve been talking this week about language and thoughts, and how that relates to non-duality and to Native spirituality. What we know about Native languages is that …
Addiction to thoughts
As far as nonduality is concerned it’s our addiction to our thoughts that’s the problem. Not the actual thoughts themselves. -Trying to understand- When you’re trying to understand something… does that mean that you’re trying to put it into language and explain it? Or does it mean that you’re trying to see deeply into it? …
You Can’t Stop Language
There is a big problem with non-duality and Enlightenment teachings: It’s seeming obscurity has caused it to be translated into something that doesn’t meld well with our culture. This teaching has been translated to us here in the Western world so that we now think the goal is to stop thoughts. We then go into …
Try to have a thought without language
Here’s a challenge: try to have a thought without language. Can it be done? You can’t have a conversation without language either. Yes? -Nonduality is a technique- Nonduality is a technique to discover yourself underneath all your language. Underneath your thoughts and your concepts about everything.
A Week of Language
A week of language. So, this week we are spending all the videos talking about language in the context of a series on how Nonduality and Native wisdom intersect. If you want to see it all in order, it’ll hopefully make a whole lot more sense. Look for the course on Nonduality and Native Wisdom …
Examining our language
Examining the way we experience language inside of our heads, what’s often called thoughts, is a very good way to figure out how human beings work. Understanding ourselves is the first step to self knowledge. -You are not your language- Nonduality is all about realizing that you are not your thoughts. If instead of thoughts …
What is a verb
What is a verb? This might sound a little, a little silly on a YouTube channel about Nonduality, but this is part of a series I’m doing on the intersection between Nonduality and Native wisdom. This week we’re talking about language and how language informs our worldview. So, what do verbs have to do with …